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Invasion of Poland
Marked the beginning of World War II, the German invasion began one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union,the Soviets invaded Poland. The campaign ended with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland under the terms of the German–Soviet Frontier Treaty. -
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Germany attacks France
The Battle of France (also known as the Fall of France) is the German invasion of France and the Netherlands in the framework of World War II. After Germany invaded Poland, France declared war on Germany. Germany was planning to attack Russia, and they knew France would honour its alliance with Russia. -
Battle of Britain begins
The Battle of Britain in World War 2 was fought between the RAF and Luftwaffe. This is the first airborne battle.Pilots and support personnel from both sides flew skyward and fought to control the airspace of Great Britain, Germany, and the English Channel. The German Air Force wanted to conquer Great Britain, but the RAF that it was a powerful enemy. -
Hitler sends the Afrika Korps to North Africa
Adolf Hitler established the Afrika Korps for the explicit purpose of helping his Italian Axis partner maintain territorial gains in North Africa. In three months they pushed the Italians out of Egypt while wounding or killing 20,000 Italian soldiers and taking another 130,000 prisoner. -
Operation Barbarossa begins
Was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started during World War II. The operation put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union so as to repopulate it with Germans. The failure of Operation Barbarossa reversed the fortunes of the Third Reich. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a military assault on the Pearl Imperial Naval Base in Honolulu by the Japanese Imperial Air Force against the United States. It was a preemptive military attack. It was in Hawaiian territory before 08:00. The attack led the United States to officially join World War II the following day. -
US and British troops land on the beaches of Algeria and Morocco
The military forces of the United States and the United Kingdom launched an amphibious operation against French North Africa, in particular the French-held territories of Algeria and Morocco. That landing, code-named ‘Torch,’ was enormous on the course of Anglo-American strategy during the remainder of the war. -
Allied troops land on the beaches of Salerno
Operation Avalanche was the code name for the Allied forces that landed near the port of Salerno, which was part of the Allied invasion of Italy. The day before the invasion, the Italians withdrew from the war, but the allies landed in an area protected by the German army. -
D-Day
The Normandy landing was a landing operation and related airborne operations in "Operation Overlord" of the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. The code-named operation "Neptune", commonly known as D-day, is the largest maritime invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of German-occupied France and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front. -
Paris liberated by the allies
Street battles are heard in a live broadcast as American troops enter Paris, joining the Allied fight to liberate the city from German control.After many days of fighting, Germany surrendered Paris to the Allied forces, ending four years of occupation. Paris had no longer had military value, except for its bridges by which fleeing German remnants could cross the Seine. -
Hitler commits suicide
Adolf Hitler,an Austrian-German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, was killed in a bunker at the Berlin headquarters, swallowed cyanide capsules, and shot himself. Soon after, Germany surrendered to the Allies unconditionally, ending Hitler's dream of establishing a "millennial" empire. -
Dropping of first atom bomb on Hiroshima
During World War II, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan. The blast destroyed 90% of the city's population and immediately killed 80,000 people. In the future, thousands of people will die from radiation.They did it because the US wished to prevent any possibility that the Soviet Union would occupy Japan . -
Japan formally surrenders
Representatives from the Japanese government and Allied forces assembled aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay to sign the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, which effectively ended World War II. The document was prepared by the U.S. War Department and approved by President Harry S. Truman.
